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vBulletin-style Forum or Wordpress-style Discussions?

Is vBull Style forum so 20th sentury?

         

Erku

9:26 pm on Jan 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I struggled with my vBull and phpBB silte discussion boards. Discussion is picking up very slowly, yet you get so much spam. One person on this forum even mention that 10 person is spam. I would say more.

So my question is this. Is vBull style forum already past?

on our project we have the actual site and Forum area. People have to click on Forum to go there. It's not picking up real well. However, we are thinking now to totally eliminate the forum area and and just leave the site news/article area and allos discussion about the same article on the same page, not special topical discussions.

Is this rather forward looking thing to do?

thank you.

LBmtb

5:12 pm on Jan 3, 2007 (gmt 0)

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There are ways to combat the SPAM problem on vBulletin. Use the email confirmation thing on registration and captcha. There's a mod on vbulletin.org which is an alternative to captcha that a lot of people have had a lot of success with -- maybe look into that?

Erku

7:40 pm on Jan 3, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Thank you so much.

My main concern is that is a forum still relevant?

Or having discussions per article is much better?

thanks

rogerd

3:54 am on Jan 7, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Forums are far from obsolete... they encourage discussion among peers, and every member can start new discussions. Blogs tend to be driven by the primary author(s). It's hard for someone else to introduce a new direction for conversation.

From a spam standpoint, blogs get plenty of spam, too. For both forums and blogs, you need to turn on all the various spam prevention features, and most likely install some plugins, too.

MThiessen

5:38 pm on Jan 7, 2007 (gmt 0)

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mod on vbulletin.org which is an alternative to captcha that a lot of people have had a lot of success with

Yeah I use this, it merely asks a simple question. The questions rotate at random and YOU make up the questions and answers. Works far better then captcha at keeping out spam.

Erku

2:04 pm on Jan 8, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Do you know how to get that mode in vBul?

Thanks

joeking

8:38 pm on Jan 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Is a forum still relevant? Maybe ask Brett ;-)